People v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 28 Cal. 2d 306 - People v. Peete (1946), 27 Cal. 2d 220 - People v. Williams (1945)
111 state decisions — followed in 17 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Lockwood · People v. Whiteman · People v. Martin · People v. Royce · People v. Bidleman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contended that at the time the witness testified he had not been ‘ convicted of a felony ’; that to sustain the ruling of the court, it must be assumed, as a matter of law, that the verdict of guilty constituted a ‘ conviction ’. That such verdict does constitute a conviction, within the ordinary as well as the technical meaning of the word, seems to be well settled. Blackstone (book 4, p. 362), after speaking of the verdict of acquittal, says: ‘But if the jury find him guilty, he is then to be convicted of the crime whereof he stands indicted. Which conviction may accrue two ways: either by his confessing the offense and pleading guilty, or being found so by the verdict of his country. ’ ’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.